Stormy Daniels

Stephanie Clifford (17 March 1979-), known professionally as Stormy Daniels, is an American adult film actress whose affair with Donald Trump in 2006 and Trump's payment of $130,000 in hush money created a political scandal in 2018. She was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1979, and she came from a poor family in a bad neighborhood. She became a stripper at the age of 17 and became a bisexual adult film actress. In 2006, she had an affair with American businessman Donald Trump, who had his lawyer Michael Cohen give her $130,000 in hush money in October 2016 so that she would not publicize the affair. In 2010, she announced that she would be interested in running for the US Senate as a Republican challenger against Senator David Vitter, having left the Democratic Party in 2010. However, she decided against running due to the media's refusal to take her candidacy seriously. On 6 March 2018, she sued Trump over the non-disclosure agreement due to Trump never signing it, rendering it invalid; this created a highly-publicized scandal which ended in May 2019 when the case was settled out of court.